ShortHand: Ching Shih - History’s Greatest Pirate
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The most fearsome, successful, and all-round timber-shivering pirate in history might not look how you think. Forget Blackbeard, Captain Morgan and any other pretender to the Seven Seas – because a female Chinese pirate called Ching Shih eclipsed them all.
Going from poverty-stricken orphan to the commander of 1,800 ships, with more than 80,000 pirates under her command, Ching’s story has passed into legend. Here’s the story of the cutthroat leader of the infamous Red Flag Fleet.
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